The Spirit of Things Podcast
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The Spirit of Things is an adventure into religion and spirituality. It explores contemporary values and beliefs as expressed through ritual, art, music, and sacred texts.
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girijad83, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: girijad83
from India
The Spirit of Things podcast by Rachael Kohn is the podcast of the program with the same name aired on Australia's ABC radio national, which can be found at www.abc.au/rn. The podcast starts with a song inspired by nature, which is sung melodiously. The podcast is an adventure into spirituality and religion, and how it is related to culture, art, music, rituals, and sacred texts.
The podcast contains interviews with people who have either been studying these topics for a long time, or generally have been affected by their faith during troubled times. It is not restricted to any specific religion, but draws powers from every religion and faith, and the underlying sense of communal harmony that is essential to bring about in today's world of destruction, greed, and power.
Rachael has a very clear voice, and the interviews are held face-to-face, which makes this podcast stand out from those that carry their interviews on the phone, making it difficult to understand the speaker. The only drawback that I found with this podcast is that the total volume of the podcast is a bit lower than it should be.
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EMOTIONS AND BELIEFS
Sun, Jan 29, 2012
Atheists and Believers have different abilities to feel and express their emotions according to a new Canadian study by Psychologists Raluca Petrican of Rotman Research Institute, Toronto and Chris Burris of St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, Ontario. Atheists are more left-brained while Believers are more right-brained, and the latter exhibit alexi-thymia more than the former. Award winning poet and former psychiatric nurse, Sally Read, found it hard to put her conversion experience into words when she turned from hardline atheist to believing Catholic.
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Dalai Lama Direct (incl. video)
Sun, Jan 22, 2012
At the age of 76, the Dalai Lama isn't beating around the bush. In an exclusive interview with Rachael Kohn, he talks about the need for religious leaders to get off their high horse and meet the people, the importance of democracy, and the possibilities for a female Dalai Lama. We also hear his strong advice to 500 high school students, at the Chenrezig Institute for Buddhist Studies, in Eudlo, southern Queensland.
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The World's Sexiest Book
Sun, Jan 15, 2012
The Bible is rife with sex, and right from the beginning it is introduced as part of the human condition. Judges, kings and prophets enjoy sex, women use it to bring down tyrants, and King Solomon's 'Song of Songs' makes Casanova's memoirs look like kid's stuff. Michael Coogan is one of the leading Biblical scholars in the US, and in his book God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says, he reveals all, including whether David loved Jonathan in that way.
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Female Messiah
Sun, Jan 08, 2012
The story of the Panacea Society. In the 1920s a vicar's widow in Bedford, England began a healing ministry that reached people around the world, including Australia. She was soon declared the Daughter of God, the Female Messiah, and took the name, Octavia. This fascinating story of religious and social change (and some tragic family history) was researched by the Right Rev'd Jane Shaw, the Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. She spoke to Rachael Kohn on a recent visit to Australia.
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Decoding Alice in Wonderland
Sun, Jan 01, 2012
On the 150th anniversary of Charles Dodgson taking deacon's orders at Oxford University, the mathematician and children's author (whose pen name was Lewis Carroll) is revealed to be more than a keen observer of church politics of his day as others have observed. He was also an inveterate seeker in esoteric spirituality, including Theosophy and Rosicrucianism. Canadian author and poet, David Day, tells all.
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Christmas Day Couple
Sun, Dec 25, 2011
In this finale of the monthly series, the Landers show us how to live an ancient faith with contemporary relevance and meaning.
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Hanukkah: Stones and Soup
Sun, Dec 18, 2011
The Temple at the centre of the ancient festival of Hanukkah is now destroyed, but the excavations adjacent to it, have revealed what looks to be King David's palace, according to archaeologists Eilat Mazar and Avner Goren. Doughnuts are traditional for Hanukkah, one of the foods that Pnina Jacobson and Judy Kempler include in One Egg is a Fortune: Recipes and Memories to Share, a cookbook by and about Jewish celebrities from all over the world.
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Boys to Men
Sun, Dec 11, 2011
Film-maker of Hoop Dreams and Journey from Zanskar, Frederick Marx has a mission to help boys become men. Rites of passage and mentoring are increasingly absent from boys’ lives as fatherless families continue to increase and religious rites of passage are sidelined by popular culture. Pathways Foundation Australia runs workshops to help boys become men, and Paul Henley is the National Training Manager.
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Oh My Goddess!
Sun, Dec 04, 2011
Six leading women in the Goddess movement including Kathy Jones (UK), Anique Radiant Heart and Tricia Szirom, speak of their spiritual beliefs and their feminist and ecological values.
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Apology for duplicate podcasts
Wed, Nov 30, 2011
We have just upgraded to a new website, and the move has caused some podcast subscribers to download duplicate mp3s. We apologise for this issue and hope you continue to listen to Radio National podcasts in the future.
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The Sufi Spirit
Sun, Nov 27, 2011
Prayer that brings a permanent awareness of the Divine Reality is the aim of Sufism first and foremost, which London based Sufi scholar, Reza Shah-Kazemi, believes is the key to its universality. Sufism's mystical universalism is what interests Hebrew University scholar, Sara Sviri, who reveals the fascinating phenomenon of 'Jewish Sufism'.
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Body Mind Spirit
Sun, Nov 20, 2011
Forget 'no pain, no gain'. Mark Bunn, former AFL footballer and author of Ancient Wisdom for Modern Health, discovered in Yoga and Ayurveda medicine that true body fitness is a spiritual goal with positive physical results. And forget mind-numbing holidays with cocktails by the pool. Laurence Toltz, co-author (with Sandy MacGregor) of Your Peaceful Place can teach you how to visit your very own Shangri-La for mind, body and spirit every day.
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Religion Under Attack
Sun, Nov 13, 2011
One third of the world's population is experiencing increased religious persecution according to Pew Research Center's recent study on religion in the public sphere. Brian Grim, Director of Cross National Data, talks about the implications, while Gregor Puppinck of the European Centre for Law and Justice discusses the seminal case which challenged the presence of the crucifix in Italian schools. Ilhan Yildiz from Karatekin University explains the religious outlook of present-day Turkey.
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God in the 21st Century
Sun, Nov 06, 2011
Robyn Williams of Radio National's The Science Show shares his unmitigated disappointment in the God which totally failed his expectations. Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins, from Emanuel Synagogue, argues that the expectations are misplaced, and blame should squarely be placed on humanity not God. God in the 21st Century was an event organised by the Sydney Institute, and our edited recording includes audience questions and comments from the other panel members, Dr Shakira Hussein and Angela Shanahan.
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